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authorPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>2011-09-19 17:46:07 +0300
committerPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>2011-09-19 17:46:07 +0300
commitd20bbfab01802e195a50435940f7e4aa747c217c (patch)
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parent136333d104bd3a62d783b0ac3d0f32ac0108c5d0 (diff)
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Merge branch 'slab/urgent' into slab/next
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diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index 232eb2736a79..b40ac6d4e86e 100644
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -336,6 +336,14 @@ unsigned long invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
unsigned long count = 0;
int i;
+ /*
+ * Note: this function may get called on a shmem/tmpfs mapping:
+ * pagevec_lookup() might then return 0 prematurely (because it
+ * got a gangful of swap entries); but it's hardly worth worrying
+ * about - it can rarely have anything to free from such a mapping
+ * (most pages are dirty), and already skips over any difficulties.
+ */
+
pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
while (index <= end && pagevec_lookup(&pvec, mapping, index,
min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE - 1) + 1)) {
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